Sound Of Silence: Trillium concert canceled 'in solidarity'
Musicians Sam King and Kevin Blagg, in partnership with the Trillium Salon Series, had an outside music concert planned at Mount Sequoyah for this weekend. The…
Stories by Lara Hightower
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Hearts In The Arts: WAC keeps home fires burning online
Theater stages across the world have gone dark because of the covid-19 pandemic, leaving many arts organizations wondering how they can stay connected with the…
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Call Waiting: T2's New Play Fest neither gone nor forgotten
In its 12 years of existence, the Arkansas New Play Festival at TheatreSquared has become a much-anticipated event -- locally as well as nationally. That's why…
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Friend Or Foe? Developing new play reveals old secrets
Russell Leigh Sharman, a featured playwright for TheatreSquared's 2020 Arkansas New Play Festival, is currently an assistant professor of practice in the Depar…
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Beyond The Books: Fayetteville Public Library continues to serve patrons
There is little doubt that the Fayetteville Public Library is an integral part of the community it serves. According to the organization's 2019 final budget do…
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The Comforts Of Home: APO plans evening of food, fun
When the global health crisis closed arts organizations' doors across the country, Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra's executive director Jason Miller was unwill…
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Kids and covid-19
In this new world we all find ourselves in — the world of a global pandemic, where sheltering-in-place has become the norm — there’s no doubt that stress is an…
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The Show Must Go On: Playwrights continue work without festival
When the University of Arkansas Department of Theatre produced the first ArkType New Play Festival in 2018, department chairman Michael Riha said it was a natu…
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Go Online! TED Talks Offer Advice, Understanding For Our Times
The first TED Conference was held in 1990; the brain child of architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman, the conference brought together the brightest…
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Podcasts: TED Talks Offer Advice, Understanding For Our Times
The first TED Conference was held in 1990. The brain child of architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman, the conference brought together the brightest…
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Where are they now?: UA grads took Hollywood by storm
Northwest Arkansas boasts the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas system and, as such, will see nearly 28,000 students work, study and live within it…
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Helping from home: Seven days, seven ways to serve communities
The current health crisis we're experiencing is leaving many people, nonprofit organizations and small businesses struggling. If you're in the position to help…
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Saving Your Sanity: Websites help kids learn, create, move and chill
So. You're self-quarantining, hunkered down at home. If you're lucky, you're able to continue your job from there; perhaps your spouse is, as well. And along w…
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Makers' Round-Up: Kellie Lehr, Ziba Rajabi both create in paint
Northwest Arkansas is a hotbed of artistic talent. In our third Makers' Round-Up of 2020, we shine a spotlight on more of the folks who make up the creative, d…
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Arkansas Community Foundation creates covid-19 relief fund
On March 18, the Arkansas Community Foundation announced the creation of a Covid-19 Relief Fund. The fund is earmarked to help support Arkansas nonprofits supp…
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'Look for helpers'
Many of us are familiar with the famous Mr. Rogers quote that suggests in times of crisis, "look for the helpers." Turns out, Northwest Arkansas is full of hel…
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Proud to be American: Volunteers help Canopy NWA create homes
Canopy Northwest Arkansas, the refugee resettlement organization based in Fayetteville, was founded about four years ago by a group of ordinary -- but determin…
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Insert Laugh Here: Audio Theatre creates 1940s-style comedy
A man that loves Humphrey Bogart so much that he makes the extreme decision to get plastic surgery to look like him and starts attracting clients that look a l…
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T2 Designs Eclectic Season: 'Designing Women' reincarnated in new comedy
Last Sunday night was a big night for TheatreSquared: Northwest Arkansas' only professional regional theater announced its new season -- its 15th, as a matter …
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School Is Weird: But 'Sideways Stories' can help kids flourish
Louis Sachar's classic "Sideways Stories From Wayside School" is the wacky tale of a school that was supposed to be 30 classrooms, side by side, but, instead, …
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T2 Attracts National Attention With New Project
Northwest Arkansas’ only professional regional theater, TheatreSquared, will be debuting a brand new stage adaptation of Linda Bloodworth Thomason’s television…
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Centennial Celebration: League of Women Voters throws birthday party
The League of Women Voters of Washington County turns 100 years old this March, and the organization is celebrating with a party that includes a powerhouse lin…
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Makers' Round-Up: Leana Fischer, Madison Woods make magic with paint
Leana Fischer's lovely watercolor prints celebrating the beauty of everyday nature grace calendars, cards and prints. Artist Madison Woods translates the natur…
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Teresa Lynn Lane
The stretch of Interstate 49 between Interstate 40 and Fayetteville does not lack gorgeous views, but the span of highway just north of the Bobby Hopper Tunnel…
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Maker Space: Eden Garrett's idea blossomed
When someone told Eden Garrett her business idea -- a mobile flower truck -- wouldn't work, instead of being discouraged, she saw it as a challenge.
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One-Two Punch: T2 uses 'The Royale' to deliver knock-out message
On its face, Marco Ramirez's play "The Royale" -- opening this week for a six-week run at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville -- is about the sport of boxing. The p…
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Defying Racism: 'Josephine' the story of surviving and thriving
"'Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places hav…
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Frank Sharp: Giving back gives him joy
"David Brooks just wrote a book called The Second Mountain [: The Quest for a Moral Life]," says Frank Sharp, standing in a hallway of the Ozark Mountain Smoke…
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Personified: Soup serves families from NWA to Capitol
Chuck Simmons, senior vice president and executive broker for Coldwell Banker, first got involved with volunteering for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Fam…
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Best Friends Forever: Trike's 'Frog and Toad' a gentle lesson in joy
If you're of the opinion that we could all use a little more kindness in the world -- and, really, who among us doesn't feel that way these days -- then Trike …
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Never Too Late: Artist discovers inspiration on his back patio
Fans of Tulsa artist John Hammer might be surprised to learn that the prolific painter has been working as a professional artist for less than a decade. That's…
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Makers' Round-Up: Macy Burr, Gregory Mitchell
Northwest Arkansas is a hotbed of artistic talent. Through a new feature -- Makers Round-Up -- we're going to be shining a spotlight on the folks who make up t…
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Next level giving: A piece of your heart can literally save lives
Many of us look for ways to give back during the holidays as a chance to demonstrate gratitude for what we have by helping others who might not be so fortunate…
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Drawn To Dickens: T2 creates new world for classic Christmas tale
It's 30 feet between the stage and light grid in TheatreSquared's new West Theatre and, at first glance, the beautiful, towering set for its holiday production…
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Norma Tomboulian
Norma Tomboulian will be 89 years old next month. The Michigan native -- whose exhibit, "Life Into Clay," is running at the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum thro…
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Curated Christmas: Boutique Show meticulously chooses offerings
The 13th annual Northwest Arkansas Boutique Show makes a big move this year to a much larger space at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers.
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A Less Grimm Fairy Tale: UA's 'Hansel and Gretel' magical, director says
The University of Arkansas Opera Theatre will present the opera "Hansel and Gretel" by the 19th century composer Engelbert Humperdinck on Nov. 21 and 22 at the…
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A Dance Of Peace: Great Russian Nutcracker like no other
Ballet may be unfamiliar to some audiences, but even those who find it intimidating are drawn to Tchaikovsky's candy-sweet holiday confection "The Nutcracker."…
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Happy Holidaze: Pop-up cocktail party benefits area nonprofits
The duo behind some of Northwest Arkansas' most popular dining and beverage establishments have announced an exciting holiday event. Hannah Withers and Ben Git…
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'Little Women,' Big Musical: Story is still the heart of beloved novel on stage
For 150 years, Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Women" has been perpetually beloved. The sentimental story of the four March sisters, their mother, Marmee, an…
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Margaret Rutherford: Revealing 'perfectly hidden' depression
The concept behind Fayetteville psychologist Margaret Rutherford's first book -- Perfectly Hidden Depression, released at the beginning of this month -- came f…
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No Place To Hide: 'Night Mother' a journey through darkness and light
When Marsha Norman's play "'Night Mother" hit the stage in 1983, it quickly became a quiet sensation. Starring a then-unknown Kathy Bates in the role of Jessie…
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'Southern Avenue' Serves Up Flavor Of Memphis
When Israeli-born musician Ori Naftaly joined up with sisters Tierinii and Tikyra Jackson, keyboardist Jeremy Powell and bassist Daniel McKee to form the band …
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Tame to terrifying: Tonight's the big night for candy, chills
Northwest Arkansas is rich with Halloween events all through the month of October -- but sometimes it can be tricky to find things to do on the actual day of t…
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Joy Fox: One woman, many lives
Driving out to Wattle Hollow, the Winslow retreat and meditation center created by Joy Fox, feels a little bit dangerous. The first part of the journey is stra…
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Maker Space: Suzannah Schreckhise goes all in on her art
Suzannah Schreckhise has been an artist all of her life. She remembers creating with her hands when she was 3 years old, and she majored in art at the Universi…
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True Lit: FPL festival showcases evolution of reading
Willow Fitzgibbon, Fayetteville Public Library's director of library sciences, says the committee tasked with booking authors for its True Lit Festival look fo…
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Border Disputes: Good fences make good neighbors at T2
When you walk into TheatreSquared's Spring Theatre -- the smaller of the two performance halls in its new, 50,000-square-foot building -- the intimacy of the s…
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One Crime, Lots of Heart: ACO director says play is sad, funny, authentic
Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart" was an almost immediate smash when it debuted in 1979 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ky. Featuring four powerhouse ro…
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HIGH PROFILE: John Elward Brown III found his own way while following in his grandfather’s footsteps
It's a pretty good bet that, as the grandson of John Elward Brown, folks assumed that John Brown III would attend the university his grandfather founded when i…
